This paper aims to give an in-depth examination of ten poems form On Poems and Five-character-quatrain, collected and edited by Xianghe Zhang, in which women are treated as the literary motif. It is set out to analyze how women as motif is approached and understood in poems in Qing Dynasty. In these poems, there are two categories identified. One is written by and devoted to the queen and maids of honor in the palace, mostly about their delightfully enjoyable days or plaintive sighs about complications in life. The other is by and about educated women who married government officials, usually gifted and learned, expressing their loneliness or bitterness of missing their husbands who often were no home. This paper argues that On Poems and Five-character-quatriran edited by Xianghe Zhang voices female concerns and emotions for women as wide as Yu Li in Wan Tang Wu Dynasty and Qingzhao Li in Bei Song Dynasty. This poem collection intricately conveys its sympathy and understanding of women and catalyzed the flourishing of poems on women’s themes in Qing Dyansty.